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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • Reading List

    I’m suffer from chronic insomnia, it’s pretty bad at the moment as I fail to complete two essays due today. Sometimes it’s manically productive however. Last night I watched a documentary on the modern novel, and got to thinking about the books that have influenced me. They’re not my favourite books, though many would make Read more

  • The Devil and the DJ

    If you’re a fan of Bright Eyes, Travis Morrison or any of this generation of quirky painfully honest eccentric singer songwriters; you should run, not walk, to the nearest record store and buy a Daniel Johnston cd. Johnston, a fascinating character, much beloved of luminaries from Kurt Cobain to Sonic Youth, is the subject of Read more

  • The Tedium is the Message

    Just watched the academy award winning movie ‘Crash’ for the first time. Wow. Just wow. I really feel like I learned something. Sometimes the people who at first seem the worst, are in fact the best. And something else, we’re all racist, deep down. Yeah that’s it. *Cough* That this, you’ll forgive the word, tripe, Read more

  • Cooking

    The food you cook is never like the food in porn. It never glistens, without seeming oily. It never sits, isolated and perfect on the plate, a taxidermied animal. The food you cook is always eaten as its done. When pasta’s soft before the chips reach crunchy, you’ll toss in sauce and suckle from the Read more

  • The Need For Feed

    Techcrunch has an article up on the state of online feed readers, which I think are as interesting for what they lacks as what they include. None of the feed readers reviewed seem to have feed grazer functionality. That is to say, while most will import and export OPML, none allow the direct surfing of Read more

  • Bebo

    Simon McGarr of Digital Right Ireland fame, asked me to write a piece explaining the hideously compelling phenomena that is Bebo, for his webzine ‘Tuppenceworth.ie. You can find the article here. Also DRI have finally gotten around to sticking up a video of the talk that Suw Charman of the UK ‘Open Rights Group‘ gave Read more